Take the nicest Everglades rat snake you
can imagine and brighten it even more and you have the hypomelanistic,
or simply "hypo" for short. The reduction of melanin
eliminates any dirty wash present in the coloration, the
overall effect producing a very shiny orange snake. Some
might consider this to be the ultimate orange snake.

Below:
Another
outstanding adult from our colony:

The first hypo Everglades rat snake was reportedly acquired
by Ernie Wagner from a breeder in Europe. Wagner established
the morph in the United States, though he marketed it as
amelanistic. Bill and Kathy Love acquired stock from Wagner
and bred it into their Everglades rat snake colony. The
Loves pointed out that these snakes retained some dark
coloration and considered them hypomelanistic rather than
amelanistic or albino. More recently the term T+ albino has
been used to describe similar morphs like the lavender or
hypo black rat snake. No matter what you call it, this morph
is stunning.

Below:
A yearling that has
begun to develop its adult coloration

Juveniles of this variation hatch with purplish blotches on
a white to pinkish ground color. As with other
rossalleni, the adult coloration develops quickly and
many individuals are nearly solid orange as yearlings.